1995 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Casa-Control Study on Herxth & Welfects Effects of Bereavement in the Eldelerly

Research Project

Project/Area Number	06670403
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Public health/Health science
Research Institution	TOYAMA MEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY
Principal Investigator	KAGAMIMORI Sadanobu Toyama Medical and Prarmaceutical University Faculry of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (20019615)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	YAMAGAMI Takashi Toyama Med & pharm Univ. Faculty of Medicine, Assistant, 医学部, 助手 (20148167) NARUSE Yuchi Toyama Med & Pharm Univ. Fvculty of Medicine Assocate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (30135008) YAMAMOTO Kazuo Keio Univ. Dept of Liturature, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (20106206)
Project Period (FY)	1994 – 1995
Keywords	elderly / bereavement / conjugal / case-control study
Research Abstract	The investigators interviewed 1,256 elderly after conjugal bereavements in order to determine which socioeconomic, prebereavement, and response variables and circumstances were related to grief and confinement. For both gender 1,256 persons, age, friends' association, religious activity, subjective health status, well slept feeling, and physical anxiety were related to grief. For 230 male, friends'association and physical anxiety were related to confinement. For 1,026 female, friends' assciation, religious activity and mental anxiety were related to confinement.